Gazelle - Violet Hour Blues

 VIOLET HOUR BLUES

There's an ever so slight chill in the air and the mornings are just a little darker.  All the tell tale signs are there to see, heralding the arrival of cooler days and nights.  To say the Summer was hot would be an understatement, yea it was hot, and yea the music was hotter! 

In a season of unforgettable music, Leicester's mighty Gazelle kept the indie fires burning with two legendary releases.  First their soulie mod inspired Magic Carpet Ride, and followed up by the sheer musical exuberance of  Clementine, kept them squarely in the top of playlists the scene over.  

Gazelle returns September 22rd to a special New Music Thursday with their third release of the season, the emotionally torrent, stripped back, Violet Hour Blues.  Taking a different direction this time the band has released an impassioned tribute to those days when the weight of the world and it's invisible chains bind us down, and yet, we refuse to be bound.  

Ryan's vocal beautifully cascades over an ever so subtle acoustic intro, almost as to channel the approaching change in seasons, when the holidays are over and the world returns to work again.  Backed by the incredibly smooth texture of the guitars and brushes on drums, the band weaves a melodic masterpiece behind powerful freedom yearning lyrics "I refuse to stay where the sun don’t shine," and "still the Winters fog swallowed my sense of purpose."    

With soulful, expressive lyrics that proclaim "when I scream, these chains aren't mine" Gazelle reminds us that mentally we are never prisoners of our physical surroundings.  

And that's it isn't it, you cannot hold that which will not be held.  As the song concludes with the chorus "So let me blow my blues away before the morning does call my name" Gazelle brings us to that special place of tranquility that we all hold in our heart.  

AND AS WE BLOW THE BLUES AWAY SUNSHINE ALWAYS FOLLOWS RAIN